Trump Supports An Effort To Deny Biden A Critical Electoral Vote
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The former president praised Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen this week for endorsing a winner-take-all system in Nebraska.
Former President Donald Trump and GOP Gov. Jim Pillen have endorsed an effort to change how Nebraska awards its Electoral College votes in a way that would benefit Trump in November — although Democrats in the state aren’t especially worried the measure would actually come to pass for this year’s election.
Trump on Tuesday recognized Pillen for endorsing a winner-take-all system for ruby-red Nebraska. The Cornhusker State and Maine are the only two states that split their Electoral College votes based on the popular vote statewide and in U.S. House districts. In 2020, Biden won a single delegate for carrying Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.
But that one delegate could have big implications for the 2024 election and Biden if the president doesn’t pull off a full sweep of the Upper Midwest or the Southern swing states that helped him clinch the presidency in 2020. Biden’s campaign declined to comment on the push.
Democrats could, theoretically, combat the loss of an electoral vote in Nebraska by seeking to change the rules in Maine, where the inverse happened four years ago — Biden carried Maine, but Trump won a single congressional district.
In the GOP primary, Trump’s campaign looked for opportunities to warp the rules in their favor, pushing for changes in Nevada that benefited Trump with his base and disadvantaged his biggest rival at the time, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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